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Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    		The Lightning Conductor is a content aggregation tool for Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams. Users can build rich, modern content reports based upon SharePoint lists, SharePoint Search, Microsoft Graph or Microsoft 365 Groups. Content can be aggregated from lists and libraries, and other applications such as Planner, To Do, OneDrive, and Teams.

    $2,200

    per year per installation

    Vuforia Chalk

    Score9 out of 10
    		N/AScale problem-solving guidance, support and expertise to factory operations & service teams with augmented reality. Vuforia Chalk is a collaboration and communication tool for the organization’s experts to provide real-time assistance to technicians facing complex or unfamiliar challenges. Vuforia Chalk combines augmented reality (AR) with real-time communications to connect a field technician with an expert…N/A
    Pricing
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorVuforia Chalk
    Editions & Modules
    Lightning Conductor WSP
    From 1950
    per year One WFE
    Lightning Conductor Enterprise Edition
    POA
    per year Four or more WFE
    Lightning Conductor Online
    From 2200
    per year per installation
    Lightning Conductor Plus (Includes Data Viewer)
    From 2500
    per year per installation
    Lightning Conductor Online Enterprise Edition (>10,000 users)
    POA
    per year per installation
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorVuforia Chalk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. $2.20 per user/year on top of base price. Enterprise editions can be amended to suit business needs if deemed necessary, additional costs incurred and TBD. All packages include free technical support. Free upgrades available to latest versions of tool as they are released. (online version)—
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    Features
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorVuforia Chalk
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor and Vuforia Chalk
    Feature
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Vuforia Chalk
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Task Management8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor and Vuforia Chalk
    Feature
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    -
    Ratings
    Vuforia Chalk
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor and Vuforia Chalk
    Feature
    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor
    -
    Ratings
    Vuforia Chalk
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Access control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorVuforia Chalk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Lightning Tools Lightning ConductorVuforia Chalk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lightning Tools
    Having experience of SharePoint On Premise and also SharePoint Online, there isn't an out of the box app/webpart that enables you to 'roll up content' from a variety of source's (in my case SP Lists, but there are many other data sources it works with) across site collections with an easy to use and intuitive interface which is what Lightning tools excels at.
    Julie Bird
    SharePoint/M365 Development
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    PTC
    Best suited for: - Team of remote support is a great visual way to address technical issues; Especially when talking about production environments. - Team of Project developers, a great tool to do tests remotely when multiple people from the customer need to connect, Vuforia Chalk support group calls and differentiates each person based on the color of annotations. Less suited for: - IT teams, which its support is mainly focused on SW issues.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Pros
    Lightning Tools
    • Aggregate documents across SharePoint site & libraries
    • Filtering for owner/person responsible & due dates
    • Ease of end-user filtering on columns
    • Color-coding & other formatting
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    PTC
    • Remote support for technical issues in the factory environment.
    • Remote support for Factory Acceptance Tests, when traveling is not possible.
    • Remote support for issues in the industry, when traveling is not possible.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Cons
    Lightning Tools
    • Mobile Friendly
    • Calendar/Gantt views
    • Complex/Custom Logic
    Toby Pior
    Intranet Supervisor
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    PTC
    • Web-version used to be a bit limited, in terms of users and features. Is on the roadmap to improve in future versions
    • No subscription version limited to 3 minutes calls.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Support Rating
    Lightning Tools
    The Lightning Tools support team responds quickly, and team members are very friendly and helpful.
    Verified User
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    PTC
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Lightning Tools
    I haven't found another product to compare this one to. Only in SharePoint Online which has a similar App 'Highlight Webpart' ... it's far too complicated to set up and requires learning yet another language and exporting and importing via PowerShell to get any real results that would be useful.
    Julie Bird
    SharePoint/M365 Development
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    PTC
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Lightning Tools
    • Policies easier to portray
    Gary Buck
    IMS Manager
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    PTC
    • Savings in mobility (traveling) when performing determined Factory Acceptance Tests.
    • Customers like the possibility of engaging in Augmented Reality Solutions.
    • Remote support is faster and easier, with a visual tool to see and do annotations in the screen.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    ScreenShots

    Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor Screenshots

    Screenshot of MODERN SHAREPOINT LIST ROLLUP The Lightning Conductor is a SharePoint Content Aggregator that can be configured quickly by business users. The Lightning Conductor can be used to aggregate content from SharePoint Lists such as Tasks, Document Libraries, Contact Lists, and Custom Lists making it easy to view content in one place even if it is distributed across many sites and site collections. Key data can be highlighted using conditional formatting and data-bars as shown. Content from Search and Microsoft Graph can also be aggregated with the Lightning Conductor.Screenshot of CONTENT AGGREGATION WITHIN MICROSOFT TEAMS The Lightning Conductor Web Part can be used within Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Even if content is stored within SharePoint sites, it is useful to have aggregated Documents, Tasks, Announcements, Calendars or Custom Lists from multiple sites displayed in a single handy view in Microsoft Teams. The Lightning Conductor can be added as a Teams Tab in any Microsoft Teams Channel.Screenshot of BUILDING REPORTS ON MICROSOFT GRAPH The Lightning Conductor can be used (without code) to aggregate content from Microsoft Graph as well as Search and SharePoint Lists. This example displays Microsoft Planner Plans and Microsoft Planner Tasks where users can Add new Tasks, Assign Users to Planner Tasks, Delete Tasks, and Complete Tasks. The same can be performed on Microsoft To Do items and displayed within Modern SharePoint pages or Microsoft Teams Tabs. The Lighting Conductor can also contain multiple views of content, making it ideal to display all of your tasks from SharePoint Task lists, Microsoft To Do and Microsoft Planner in a single web part or Teams Tab. *Microsoft Graph Reports are only available for SharePoint Online and not SharePoint 2019.Screenshot of BUILDING REPORTS ON MICROSOFT 365 GROUPS Powered by Microsoft Graph, the Microsoft 365 Group Rollup Provider enables users to aggregate content by browsing and selecting Microsoft 365 Groups. Within Microsoft 365 Groups, you’ll be able to select entities such as Drive Items, Owners, Members, Planner Plans, Planner Tasks, Events, Posts, Sites, Lists, and Calendars. *Microsoft Graph Reports are only available for SharePoint Online and not SharePoint 2019.Screenshot of AGGREGATING USING SEARCH When performance is critical, search can be used for rollups. The Lightning Conductor offers three data source configurations to get to content. Object Model (Real Time Aggregation from SharePoint Lists), Microsoft Graph (Aggregation from Graph Entities such as Planner, OneDrive, Outlook), and Search. The Search Data Source enables the aggregation of content from large SharePoint lists and libraries when performance is critical. Thousands of documents can be displayed in under a second using Search.Screenshot of HIGHLIGHTING KEY BUSINESS DATA WITHIN VIEWS End users and Site Owners can highlight the data that is important to them, the data that they need to prioritize. Using conditional formatting, data bars, and icons, conditions can be configured to highlight the data that is most important. Icons and Data Bars can be any color or size desired. Examples include highlighting High Priority tasks, Showing data bars for the completion progress of Tasks, or indicating which tasks are assigned to any particular user.

    Vuforia Chalk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Chalk is available on mobile and tablet.Screenshot of Chalk leverages video-calls to share the same view of an issue.Screenshot of Both users can mark up the screen with annotations.Screenshot of Chalk uses advanced augmented reality to make annotations "stick" to the digital 3D environment.Screenshot of Chalk drives expertise at scale.